2010 Harley-Davidson Color Information

I stopped by Dillon Harley here in Omaha tonight and chatted with Jason Davis again. He's got to be tired of seeing me come in.

I didn't have a whole lot of time to spend there, which was a relief to my wife, but I did confirm with Jason that the list of 2010 Harley-Davidson colors has been out for a while now and that the turquoise and antique white two-tone will be discontinued.

Jason and I also talked a bit about the custom motorcycle painting that Dillon Brothers can do. For about $2500 or so, (and this is just a rough guesstimate on his part, so I'm not holding Dillon Brothers to it) he said they could do just about any color scheme I could think of.

That might be fun, I mentioned, as my wife shook her head.

Yeah, I's still thinking about it.

After I got home and did a little searching, I was able to find the official list of colors that Harley's are going to be available in for 2010.

First off, Harley's going to discontinue these colors:

• Black Pearl
• Pewter Pearl
• Dark Blue Pearl
• Pewter Denim
• Red Hot Denim
• Dark Blue Denim
• Crimson Red Sunglo

So if you had any of those colors set in your mind that you really wanted, you might want to put your money down now.

Here are the colors and color combinations that are going to still be available on the Harley 2010 model year:

Solid colors

• Vivid Black
• Flame Blue Pearl
• Brilliant Silver Pearl
• Black Denim
• Red Hot Sunglo
• Mirage Orange Pearl
• Brilliant Silver Denim

Two-tone colors

• Brilliant Silver Denim/Black Denim
• Vivid Black/Mirage Orange Pearl Race Stripe

And here's the list the new colors that Harley's going to be introducing on the 2010 model year lineup:

Solid colors

• Scarlet Red
• Black Ice Denim
• Black Ice Pearl

Two-tone colors

• Black Denim/Brilliant Silver Denim Race Stripe
• Vivid Black/Brilliant Silver Pearl Race Stripe
• Scarlet Red/Vivid Black
• Flame Blue Pearl/Brilliant Silver Pearl
• Vivid Black/Brilliant Silver Pearl
• Vivid Black/Black Ice Pearl
• Flame Blue Pearl/Vivid Black
• White Ice Pearl/Black Ice Pearl

Here are some pictures I managed to scrounge up of the Harley 2010 colors:

I can say with all honesty that I'm really looking forward to July, when Harley-Davidson is expected to officially release all the 2010 model year information.

Visiting Holstein’s Harley-Davidson Dealership For The First Time

As part of the whole process of shopping for a new motorcycle, I'm going to be checking out as many dealers in the Omaha area that I can. When you're preparing yourself to drop about $18,000 to $19,000 on a new motorcycle, you want to make sure that the place you buy it from is going to be able to take care of you, that you can trust them a bit not to rip you off.

From the looks of things, unless they want to drive for a while, people who are interested in buying a Harley in the Omaha area have three choices - Dillon Brothers Harley at 180th and Maple, Frontier Harley in Lincoln and Holstein Harley-Davidson at 72nd and L street.

While it's not the first dealership I went to, I did have the opportunity to stop by the new showroom of Holstein's Harley-Davidson on the 15th of May, 2009.

Holstein's Harley-Davidson new store is located at 4940 South 72nd Street, right across from where Rod Kush's furniture store is/used to be.

I've been talking with some co-workers about different dealerships in the area, listening to their experiences and getting ideas about what the motorcycle-buying scene in Omaha is about. We have some long-term riders in my workplace, who have been buying motorcycles for decades in the Omaha area. Everyone I've talked to about the different dealerships in the area have been pretty unanimous - with most people having a negative opinion of Holstein's Harley. In some cases, vehemently negative opinions...

I've been told that Holstein's dealership wasn't really interested in selling bikes, that they just kept the franchise to get the dealership discount, that their service department sucks, that they treated people like dirt during the years that they were the only Harley dealer in town - that type of thing.

I snuck the visit in with the wife as we were heading home from Kubat's pharmacy, so I went with my wife and kids in tow. The kids were tired and the wife was tired of the kids being tired, but she indulged me and hauled everyone inside to check things out.

From what I could tell during my visit to the Holstein's dealership, it looked like they'd put some money into the building and the presentation of the place. It was very clean and well-lit. They had a pretty good selection of bikes on the floor, both new and used.

From what I saw, they had about as many bikes on the floor as Dillon Brother's Harley has. I wandered up and down the aisles and checked out the bikes. I noticed that Holstein marks their freight and dealer prep on the tags attached to the bikes - something that was missing during my many previous visits to Dillon Brothers.

I was asked once if I needed any help by a youngish-looking salesguy. I didn't need any at the moment, told him so and he left me alone, which is what I wanted. There were a few other customers in the store, more customers than salesguys, so I figured I'd let him go help someone who might want to buy today.

The selection of clothing and accessory merchandise didn't seem as extensive in Holstein's dealership as it did in Dillon Brothers. I checked out a few helmets while I was there, and was helped by a nice saleswoman. Woman, not girl. She seemed knowledgable about helmets and was eager to help me find what I needed. When she didn't have the exact helmet that I was looking for in stock, she took down my information and told me it would be ready in about 5 days. She asked if I was law enforcement, I explained my situation and she told me to mention it when I pick the helmet up to get a discount. Good customer service there, as long as they get back with me.

Despite what I've heard about their dealership, my first experience visiting Holstein's Harley-Davidson dealership was a good one. I haven't actually talked to anyone there at length, but I'm waiting for that call back about the helmet and will talk to an actual bike salesperson the next time I stop by. We'll see how that goes.
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